Mike Quigley

Lawmakers support updating policy that bans gays from donating blood

SDGLN Staff
June 11th, 2012

WASHINGTON – Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) today sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) voicing support for a new pilot study reviewing the policy that bans gay and bisexual men from donating blood.

Sens. Michael Bennett (D-Colo.), Mark Udall (D-Colo.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), Bernie Sanders (I – Vt.) Mark Begich (D-Alaska) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) co-signed the letter.

Congressmen protest treatment of LGBT immigration detainees

Paul Canning – LGBT Asylum News
January 10th, 2012

WASHINGTON -- Following repeated reports of sexual abuse in the immigration detention system by the Heartland Alliance, Congressman Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) and Congressman Jared Polis (D-Colo.) requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) investigate and offer possible remedies to improve conditions at Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities and those with which they contract.

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